[Rick]

Originally Posted by ben5015se

the unreleased nuclear engine has some files for the half-life mdl format

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nuclear

(in the cvs)

its got lots of stuff that work with hl :s

Awsome
Maybe someday a nice OS HL replacement will arise...

Ohh I see I'm the first one to vote with Yes !
anyway even IF Valve doesn't OS HL1 , technically speaking they already did , LOL
I just downloaded the last Sdk...
Now after all the messing and twisting with the HL1 source code , Who can still honestly say HL1 isn't Open source?

by the way , HL2 is on they way Too ! (oops that rhymes)

Uhm...no
You just got the SDK(a talented programmer as you need no further explenation, but I give it anyway).
The SDK stands for Software Development Kit(tm). Usually software which provide this will let you be able to extend/modify some parts of the software through another API. So for HL you can be a happy modder with the SDK, but the actual engine(which is what we're after at) remains hidden(closed source).